Dear, As an exercise about rebuilding old versions (e.g. used by old scientific paper), I have tried to rebuild say the very old Python 2.5.
My naive attempt is to start with: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.2/Python-2.5.2.tgz tar -xzvf Python-2.5.2.tgz guix build python2 --with-source=/tmp/Python-2.5.2 guix build: warning: transformation 'with-source' had no effect on [email protected] The following graft will be made: /gnu/store/ck7swzbk6h7mc7splsih93xsixc6z4ni-python2-2.7.17.drv [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Why is it not possible to use '--with-source' with the package python2? I was expecting fail to build, not fail to apply the transformation. I mean, I thought that "guix build foo --with-source" was somehow equivalent to: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- cd /tmp/Python-2.5.2 guix environment -C python2 ./configure make --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- which works. Is it not? Thank you in advance. All the best, simon
